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dale and Lord Mar, that do not have a single one in the 

 class leaders. 



I realize that so many other things enter in that it 



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difficult to judge which would be really great sires. For m- 

 stance, Masher's Sequel, while he does not have a daughter 

 among the class leaders, and has never sired a single cow 

 with a record of over 700 pounds fat, nevertheless has 63 

 daughters in the Advanced Register out of a total of 79 reg- 

 istered, while some other bulls that have had an unusually 

 good chance, both in the character of the cows they were used 

 on and the opportunities of their daughters, have proven to 

 be poor sires, when judged by the production of their daugh- 

 ters, even though they may ha\'e one daughter among the 

 class leaders. 



I shall, in the following tables, attempt to classify some 

 of the A. R. cows of the breed as descendants of certain ani- 

 mals to which we give the names of families. Oftentimes 

 it will be found, however, that the animal that is gi\'en as a 

 descendant of Glenwood Girl or May Rose, or any other fam- 

 ily, may actually have considera1)ly more blood of several 

 little-known families. I have arranged these families (if we 

 may call them such) alphabetical!)', to avoid any suspicion of 

 favoritism. These tables do not purport to be a complete 

 list of all the Advanced Register descendants, because bulls 

 that have but a single Advanced Register daughter are omit- 

 ted, but all are equally complete. T include, also, the descend- 

 ants of some individual cows, which while they cannot be said 

 to have founded families, have yet proven themselves progen- 

 itors of large numbers of A. R. animals. These tables will make 

 it possible to trace the relationship of very many animals of 

 the breed. These lists will include the records of some cows 

 that have been completed, but to which A. R. numbers have 

 not yet been assigned, and, in some cases, the records may 

 be subject to very slight revision before final publication. 



In these tables each generation, one further removed from 

 the original ancestor, is placed three points further to the 

 right in the table; as an example, in the first table, showing 

 the descendants of Bonny Lassie of Fernwood, Sweet Marie 

 is a daughter of Murne Cowan, she being a daughter of Fan- 

 tasia's Jeweler, he a son of Lily Ella's jeweler, he a son of 

 Lily Ella, and she a daughter of Lily's Bonny Boy, which 

 Avould place Sweet Marie 15 points to the right of Lily's 

 Bonny Boy, or five generations, and this is as far as I have 

 deemed wise to attempt to carry the tables. 

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